Wow, who knew that big games sell consoles? After weeks of incredibly dreary Japanese sales charts reading, the PlayStation 4 has finally jumped back up to respectable numbers. With the release of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, the new-gen system leapt to the top of the hardware charts with sales of 54,494 units.
Hideo Kojima's latest game, meanwhile, topped the software charts on PS4, selling through 293,652 copies - which is rather good. The PS3 version of the stealth-'em-up wasn't far behind, either, totalling 117,547 sales. All in all, that means The Phantom Pain has debuted with a strong total count of 411,000 copies sold. Well deserved, we reckon.
Other than that, there really isn't much to see here, so be sure to let us know if you think that the PS4 can keep up this winning streak in the comments section below.
Hardware sales
- PlayStation 4 – 54,494 (18,539)
- New 3DS LL – 26,976 (38,498)
- PlayStation Vita – 11,099 (12,125)
- Wii U – 10,232 (11,781)
- New 3DS – 5,179 (7,089)
- PlayStation 3 – 2,817 (2,571)
- 3DS – 1,692 (2,216)
- 3DS LL – 909 (1,116)
- PlayStation Vita TV – 609 (567)
- Xbox One – 180 (168)
Software sales
- [PS4] Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Konami, 09/02/15) – 293,652 (New)
- [PS3] Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Konami, 09/02/15) – 117,547 (New)
- [3DS] Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King (Square Enix, 08/27/15) – 106,823 (691,539)
- [3DS] Yo-kai Watch Busters: Red Cat Team / White Dog Squad (Nintendo, 07/11/15) – 49,542 (1,450,344)
- [3DS] Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer (Nintendo, 07/30/15) – 30,840 (989,889)
- [Wii U] Splatoon (Nintendo, 05/28/15) – 18,826 (626,497)
- [3DS] Rhythm Heaven: The Best+ (Nintendo, 06/11/15) – 9,293 (455,284)
- [PSV] Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition (SCE, 03/19/15) – 8,355 (317,041)
- [PSV] Infinite Stratos 2: Love and Purge (5pb., 09/03/15) – 7,643 (New)
- [Wii U] Mario Kart 8 (Nintendo, 05/29/14) – 5,935 (1,117,394)
- [3DS] Lego Ninjago: Shadow of Ronin (Warner Bros., 09/03/15) – 5,011 (New)
- [3DS] Famicom Remix: Best Choice (Nintendo, 08/27/15) – 4,523 (18,602)
- [PS4] Dragon's Dogma Online Limited Edition (Capcom, 08/27/15) – 3,660 (32,976)
- [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf (Nintendo, 11/08/12) – 3,422 (4,038,451)
- [3DS] Super Robot Wars BX (Bandai Namco, 08/20/15) – 3,189 (114,978)
- [PS3] Infinite Stratos 2: Love and Purge (5pb., 09/03/15) – 2,973 (New)
- [PS4] Until Dawn (SCE, 08/27/15) – 2,829 (20,301)
- [3DS] Pokemon Omega Ruby / Alpha Sapphire (Pokemon, 11/21/14) – 2,807 (2,692,914)
- [3DS] Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright / Conquest (Nintendo, 06/25/15) – 2,563 (415,150)
- [PSV] Taiko Drum Master: V Version (Bandai Namco, 07/09/15) – 2,446 (92,993)
[source 4gamer.net, via gematsu.com]
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PS4 will probably stay number 1 for another week with strong sales of MGS. Then the handheld market will inevitably regain the top spot. Once the new DQ and FF games release for ps4 this trend may change, but if it doesn't it's ok. PS4 is a global brand and though Sony wants it to be hugely popular on it's home turf, it does not necessarily need it to be. The ps4 sold more units last week than xbox1 has sold all year in japan, so there is that I guess, lol.
Metal Gear was a multiplatform release, right? Simply stunning that it managed to shift a whopping 12 Xbox Ones in Japan, compared to 35,955 PS4's.
180 Xbox ones what a flop lol
It was always going to be hard for xbox in japan, considering it's history there. Japanese can be an unforgiving bunch and there really may be nothing they can do to make the xbox brand successful in the land of the rising sun. Scale bound will move the needle a little, but it will also show Japanese developers that making exclusive deals with Microsoft is not a good idea when it doesn't move neatly as many units as it could. Securing scale bound as an exclusive could actually have an adverse effect on future Japanese xbox exclusives, but they have to try matter what. COULD end up a lose lose for them all, I hope not bc it actually looks like a cool game.
It's always been about big games. Japan stopped buying PS4 systems in huge numbers because there was very little to play besides sequels and re-hashes (with the few exceptions). But once the big titles start coming out, you're going to see the numbers increase.
btw, Microsoft does a poor job with the Japanese market because it doesn't understand the Japanese market or western fans of the Japanese market.
Wow that's a bit of a jump and excellent software numbers too, simply the best game so far this generation and the best open world game I've played.
Hopefully some more big games drop soon so numbers in the 35K to 50K range are sustainable, but I'm not going to get my hopes up too much. MGS V helped more for one week that I expected though, imagine if a PS3 version didn't exist.
@carlos82 I think The Witcher 3 is the best game thus far, this gen, imo. Though I guess its a close call between the two depending on your preference.
I think Fallout 4 will take the actual GOTY title...
I have to go with bloodborne as best this gen so far, simply excellent game without the need for repetitive gameplay. (Ex. Destiny, Witcher etc etc)
Agree that the Witcher 3 is the best so far this gen, although GOTY will probably be a toss up between MGS and Fallout 4 (and no Pushsquare staff, leave Journey out of the running, it's honestly not that good or life changing whatsoever).
yeah, MGS has always been big in Japan, of course
what was said about xbox in japan: MS should just give up on this market already - the only way they could have sold quite a few consoles over there would be with some major exklusive deals of japanese brands - imagine how sales would explode if the next persona 5, final fantasy 15, kingdom hearts 3 and dragon quest would be xbox-exklusive ...
glad to see the Vita on place 3 in the ranking, its well deserved - that console is far from dead imo (many people around the net argue so it seems)
@WARDIE that's a very good shout and another amazing game and Fallout 4 could top the pair of them. Certainly one of my best years gaming
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